We are yankees fans. A mets man. Governor, welcome to New Hampshire. Governor christie great. Helped him on a lot of campaigns. It goes to the senate. Governor christie thank you. Sure. Anytime. Gov. Christie ill be back up monday. Every week. Any question you have, i am happy to answer. I am proud of my record. Thank you. Appreciate the time. Governor christie thank you so much. You are more than welcome. Thank you for coming. I would love to have you in for dinner when youre up. By all means. Absolutely. Tha you for being here and for staying. I have never voted for somebody for president that i havent met. Gov. Christie dont start now. I have an inside track. Thank you so much. Accountability. Absolutely. Governor christie when you do inspire more students. We need you to inspire more students. Thank you so much. It, i am ao say registered democrat, but i love your message. You are sincere, knowledgeable, it was fun to listen to you speak. I liked how you addressed the question i was going to ask about congressional term limit. I think that the career politicians in washington make every issue about getting reelected instead of what the people really want. Gov. Christie i am totally for it and i just dont understand why they think they are indispensable. Because they are not. None of us are. If we get rid of the president there is no reason they should stay longer than 12. They should be able to get it done with that. I think eight years would be reasonable. Gov. Christie so do i, by the way. Six terms of the house into in the senate. The reason i picked 12 is that it is divisible by both sides. That way everybody has the same rules. Open out after 12 years. I think it is important i think. It hurts our country. It was designed to be a Citizen Legislature where you serve for a period of time and go back home. That is how it should be. I agree. Gov. Christie thanks for taking the time to listen and hang around afterwards. I got you. I am from connecticut. Governor christie thank you for taking the time to listen and hang around afterwards. Governor christie how are we doing, brother . My father graduated from new boston when they had a high school, 14 people in the class. A small town. Christie what a great setting. I think i got a few bug bites. Gov. Christie the long sleeves help. The primary is in september. Keep working hard until then. Governor christie thank you for your help. I remind him of that. Yes, i did. Thank you for being here. I see your face light up like that. It is going really well. Give got to be cancer faster than anybody else. He looks good yesterday. Looked good yesterday. Governor christie just a little stumble. We will be back up here on monday. [indiscernible] good to see you again. It is going to be a good weekend. We are very excited for a corn dog. September 16. september 16. Ie hi, mary pat. Christie we have seven offduty firefighters. Where we going where are we going . Absolutely. Behind every great man is a greater woman. Thank you. Best of luck. Governor christie thank you for coming. Last guy in line. How are you . Governor christie good, how are you. Everybody ranted and raved about the education. No one went to Ronald Reagan and his position. Can we do that . Gov. Christie i think the priority is to change what is going on. I think that if you have that argument first it will be divisive. We have to be able to get the things that really matter done which is get the strings off get , intrusion out and return curriculum control. So you are on the same wavelength as governor kasich, who said we get it wrong to in the 1990s. We were going to kill the department of education. He said everyone thought we were saying we were going to kill education. Governor christie youve got to be smart about it. How about we call it, were going to decentralize the federal department of education in 50 directions. Governor christie i think at least 50, if you are a governor, they are in our pockets and in our curriculum. I think that is important, you do not tie it up with other things that are more controversial. We have a better chance to get that done if we can give the control to the state, the benefit that we get will far outweigh anything else. Just call it decentralization. Gov. Christie how about going after the actual issue and not for the symbolism. Symbolism is important, but in education, you need to get into the substance. And get it fixed quicker. Here is an argument. Very simple. Localities run k12, run it, finance it. States run higher education. You have people in washington with no operational experience telling people who have operational experience what to do. I think the American Voter gets that. Governor christie i think they get that to what is not a oneway conversation. We will have secretary clinton saying that that that means he doesnt care about education. Dont walk into traps. There is no reason to walk into their traps. I have watched them do it, i am a little more concerned about getting the job done. You are here late. Thank you very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] tomorrow we had that cliff to iowa remarks from texas republican senator ted cruz. He is on a list of president ial candidates appearing at the iowa state fair. He will be speaking at the Des Moines Register soapbox. Watch that live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern tomorrow. Cspan. This weekend on the cspan networks, politics, books, and American History. On cspan saturday, live coverage of president ial candidates at the iowa state fair continues. We will hear from Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00 p. M. 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The idea behind the tour is to take programming for American History television and book tv out on the road the on the beltway. To reduce pieces that are a little bit more visual and provide a window into the cities that viewers were not numeral he normally go to. A lot of people have already heard the history of the big cities like new york and los angeles, chicago. What about the smaller ones like albany, new york . What is the history of them . We event over 75 cities. We will have hit 75 cities in april of 2016. These are not event coverage type pieces. They are shorter. They take you someplace. They take you to a historic site. We partner with cable affiliates to explore the literary culture various cities. Wiki entry is the cable operator billing contacts the city. Its the cable industry bringing us there. They are looking for great characters. You really want your viewers to be able to identify with these people that we are talking about. It is an experiencetype program where taking people on the road to places where they can touch things, see things, and learn about it is not just the local history. A lot of that plays into the national story. If somebody is watching this, they should be enticed enough that they can get the idea of the story. But also feel that this is just in our backyard. Lets go see it. We want viewers to get a sense that, i know that place just from watching one of our places pieces. Of oure do with all coverage, it bleeds and will be due out on the road. You have to be able to can convey the message of this network to do this job. It stunned the one thing that we wanted it to do which was built relationships with the city and our Cable Partners and gather some great programming for American History tv and book tv. Watch the city store on cspan networks. To see where we are going next, see our schedule at cspan. Org citiestour. Former president jimmy carter held a News Conference earlier today we learn he has cancer that is spread to his liver and brain. [no audio] president carter in may i went down to guyana. I had a bad cold, came back here to emery. In the process, they did a complete physical examination. The mri showed there was a cancer or growth on my liver. They did a scan that lit up so they were pretty sure there was a cancer. It was on august 3. The tumor was only two and a half cubic centimeters. They removed about 85 cubic Senate Leaders centimeters which was a 10th of my liver. They did a biopsy and found out it was cancer and melanoma. They had a suspicion then and now that the melanoma started somewhere else in my body and spread to the liver. The doctors told me that 98 of all melanoma is skin cancer and 2 is internal. Then i came back after that and they did a biopsy and found they did and mri. They found there were four spots of melanoma on my brain. They are small spots, two millimeters if you can envision what a millimeter is. I will get my first radiation treatment and my brain is this afternoon. I understand i will have four treatments scheduled at three week intervals. In addition to that, yesterday they gave me a mask of hold my head ethically still while the radiation goes in. I have prepared for that. And they will give me an iv of this is a medicine that they use for melanoma that enhances the activity of the antiimmune system. This medicine has been approved in the United States and has been tested in europe. My doctors will also continue to scan other parts of my body with an mri and pet scan to see if and where the melanoma originated. That will be the ongoing for the next number of months, i presume. There was a doctor at emery that did the surgery. Dr. David lawson a specialist , for melanoma and there is a specialist in radiation. He is in charge of the cancer center. They are working very closely with other Cancer Centers around this nation. In particular indiana, houston, texas, National Cancer institute, sloankettering, and others. I have referred those offers of help to the doctors to get their acquiescence of approval before treatment. For a number of years, we have learned on dramatically reducing the work at the Carter Center but we have not done it yet. [laughter] president carter. We thought about it when i was 85 and then again when i was 90. This is a time to carry out our longdelayed plans so i will cut back fairly dramatically on my at theions at emery and Carter Center. As you know, the Carter Center has a full Legal Partnership with emery with trustees approved by emery and vice versa. The president of emery is on our board. We have built up a substantial endowment to tie the Carter Center over. There is over 600 million and in our endowment and i will continue to sign letters requesting contributions and making key calls to people. I will continue with the funding and the trustee meetings, i will attend those. I would also like to schedule the regular meetings with our fellows and directors as they give detailed reports on what we are doing with the fight against guinea worm and other health programs. I cannot really anticipate the how i will be feeling. I will have to differ to my doctors in charge of treatment. I understand that the radiation treatment and also the injection injections will be every three weeks, four times and they will stop and take a look at what the results might have been. I will try to adhere to that schedule as much as possible. The Carter Center is wellprepared to continue one about any handicap. If we do back away from a lot of the activities weve been doing, we have decided last march, our grandson jason would take over as chairman of the board, the board of trustees made that decision march at the meeting in november. Jason will be the chairman of the board of trustees of the Carter Center, a body that may seal to the decisions about what projects we work on and things of that nature. Of course, if he wants me to give advice i would be delighted to do it as i have done in the past. I was chairman for a while but i step down a number of years ago. I will try as best i can to continue my work as a professor at emery and to attend some of the meetings. I would say that the rest of my plans would be determined by my consultations with doctors on what i needed to do to get adequate treatment for the melanoma. At least it has existed in my liver, they think they got it all but in a shown up in four places in my brain and it is likely to show up other places in my body. Thats what i like to say but i will be glad to answer questions. Good morning, just want to get your initial reaction when you heard the cancer word and what doctors have said about your prognosis. You seem very optimistic in your spirits are good. Pres. Carter i felt that it was confined to my liver and the operation had completely removed it, so i was quite relieved. That same afternoon we had an mri of my head and neck and it showed up in my brain. I would say that night and the next day until i came back to emery, i thought i had a few weeks left. Surprisingly, i am at ease. I have had a wonderful life and thousands of friends. I have had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence. I was a surprisingly at ease, more than my wife. But now i feel this is the hand be prepared will when the day comes. Mr. President , you just said that you expect that there will be further cancers diagnosed. Was it at all difficult given , the fact that you also just said that maybe it was a matter of a few weeks . Was it difficult to decide to go ahead with this treatment . Does your faith play any role in the fact that you did that or did you consider at any time, not doing anything . Pres. Carter i never have doubted that i would carry out the recommendations of emory doctors. So when they said they wanted to go ahead and find out other places it might show up to treat them, im perfectly at ease of that with that. Im perfectly at ease with whatever comes. I was pleasantly surprised that i didnt go into an attitude of despair or anger or anything like that. I was just completely at ease. As rosa would testify. I think that is a testament to my veracity i have been very grateful. Im looking forward to a new adventure. You have just said that you felt at ease. Can you tell us more about your discussions with your doctors and family, and how you came to decide that you did want treatment and wanted to pursue anything your doctors recommend would be appropriate for you . Pres. Carter that was a was not difficult for me because i dont think ill ever toi ever found it difficult commit to what my doctors recommended. I have decided that to begin with. I understand if you have any technical questions, i would be ready to answer. The three doctors that i worked with in close harmony with me, and the surgeon that did the operation on my liver and the specialist on treatment of cancer. Also the specialist on melanoma itself. They have been like a team working very closely with me. And i have complete confidence them. And others have consulted with them and i understand they have shared the m. R. I. With some others. So they are consulting, i guess with the best cancer treaters in the world, and im very grateful that emerys in charge. With the Atlanta Journal constitution. First of all, president carter, im so sorry and sad to hear this news. But i just have a basic question. How are you feeling . I feel good. I havent felt any weakness or disability. The pain has been just slight fter my operation on my liver. Two lap row scoppy with small incisions. Doctors expected that there would be a pain going from your liver to your right shoulder if you have liver problems and if you have a heart problem i believe that goes to your left shoulder. I only took a few pain relievers but not anymore than that. I had a slight reaction to the treatment, what is that i had a little bit of pain in my shoulder and i want to bed about 6 00 and slept until 8 00 a. M. This morning. I think it was about the best nights sleep ive had in many years. So i feel a bit at ease about it. Ive been very lucky that the emery doctors have been able to control any aspect of pain from the operation or effects of cancer. You mentioned all the wellwishers. Has there been any correspondence or calls that really touched you . Well, both president bushes called me at one time. Bush sr. Called me yesterday again and i appreciated that very much. President obama called and the Vice President called and bill and Hillary Clinton called. Secretary of state. First time they have called in a long time. [laughter] but i think the Close Friends that ive had around home that have done special things to thats what i really maybe feel more emotionally and my whole family. All the folks we have. We have 21 other carters that live in georgia, and they have been down to see us. And they will be down again this weekend for my wifes birthday celebration. Abundance ad a an of gratitude. Jonathon karl with abc news. First, i saw a report you told habitat with humanity that you still wish to go forward to your trip with them to nepal. I would like still to go. It requires a flight to katmandu and then another flight. If i do that, i understand i havent talked to the doctors yet but i understand with my schedule it would require a fiveweek postponement of my last treatment. So thats what im going to have to consider. But up until this morning i was completely committ